Re: Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Ahmed Majeed wrote: > Hi, > I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to > be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I > have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, > but when I tried install

Re: Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ahmed Majeed schrieb: Hi, I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, but when I tried installing it, terminal returned an error on 'ma

Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Ahmed Majeed
Hi, I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, but when I tried installing it, terminal returned an error on 'make', saying: "Failed to

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread Madhu R. Vajrala
This TIP worked GREAT !!! I was able to install python-2.4.1 on Sun Solaris by executing below steps ( I am not a 'root' user) 1. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz 2. gunzip Python-2.4.1.tgz 3. /usr/sfw/bin/gtar -xvf Python-2.4.1.tar 5. cd Python-2.4.1 6. ./configure

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
Madhu> I did... Madhu> 1. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz Madhu> 2. gunzip -c Python-2.4.1.tgz | tar xvf - Madhu> the above step errors: Madhu> Madhu> tar: directory checksum error Madhu> gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe Madhu> ---

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread casevh
Madhu R. Vajrala wrote: > > 2. gunzip -c Python-2.4.1.tgz | tar xvf - > Use gtar. The Solaris tar does not hnadle long file names correctly. gtar should be found in /usr/sfw/bin. cvh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread Madhu R. Vajrala
I did... 1. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz 2. gunzip -c Python-2.4.1.tgz | tar xvf - the above step errors: tar: directory checksum error gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe 3. Later in ./configure step... This step also fails...(I did run this by ig

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
Why don't you donwload the source from python.org? Also, on Solaris tar is sometimes broken (i.e. can't deal with long directory names etc.) You may want to donwload and install gnu tar. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

2005-07-14 Thread Madhu R. Vajrala
Hello All, I am very new to Python, trying to install it from source (ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/python-2.3.3.tar.gz) on Sun Solaris-9 (SPARC). But getting the below error message during configure. Also while uncompressing, it is returning the checksum doesnt match error as wel